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Swedish bloggers give MEP a kicking over media pluralism
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| The committee’s statement on the report proposes other clear assaults on
| freedom and democracy such as “editorial charters” to stop owners,
| shareholders and governments interfering with editorial content, and
| introducing fees for the commercial use of user-generated content.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/27/mep_media_pluralism/
P2P does not harm networks
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| However engineers reading the document here said that the whole idea is bogus
| as blockages in one area can be easily re-routed. The congestion Bell claims
| to be suffering from is nothing and its figures completely dispel the myth
| that P2P is crushing the internet.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/27/p2p-does-harm-networks
DOJ sinks another EliteTorrent admin
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| Daniel Dove, 26, was convicted by a jury on separate counts of "conspiracy
| and felony copyright infringement," the US Department of Justice announced
| today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/27/daniel_dove_elitetorrents_guilty_verdict/
Allowing people to find Linux ISOs is now a crime? Did the man encourage people
to share copyrighted material or was a generic service merely run (and abused
by users)? The intellectual monopolies punish the medium rather than those who
infringe.
Related:
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/
Is Comcast's BitTorrent filtering violating the law?
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| Assuming that the SYN packet goes through, the three-way handshake is allowed
| to happen, then the two hosts will be able to begin communicating. Your ISP
| can still kill the connection later, should they wish to, merely by blocking
| the transmission of future packets.
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| According to Torrent Freak, Comcast is not doing this. They are instead
| sending a reset (or RST) packet to the Comcast customer, pretending to be
| from the host at the end of the BitTorrent connection.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9769645-46.html
Comcast Isn’t Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too?
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| Following reports that Comcast isn’t net neutral, Consumerist blog has
| acquired several leaks from Comcast insiders, claiming that they do indeed
| use Sandvine for packet shaping, and that customer service representatives
| are being told nothing about how the network technology works,
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http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/comcast-isnt-net-neutral-are-they-liars-too/
Comcast admits paying attendees at FCC hearing
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| Comcast Corp. admitted yesterday that it paid people to attend a government
| hearing. Company critics say the freelance attendees were there to crowd them
| out; Comcast says they were merely saving seats for employees.
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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20080228_Comcast_admits_paying_attendees_at_FCC_hearing.html
Comcast stacked Net Neutrality meeting
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/27/comcast-stacked-net-neutrality
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